144. Beyng and the original strife9
(beyng or non-beyng in the essence of beyng itself)
The origin of strife from the intimacy of the "not" in beyng! The event.
The intimacy of the "not" in beyng: belonging first of all to the essential occurrence of beyng. Why? Can we still question in this way? If not, why not?
The intimacy of the "not" and also what is in strife in being—are these not what Hegel means by "negativity"? No; and yet he did experience something essential, as already did Plato in his Sophist and before him (more essentially and quite differently) Heraclitus. But Hegel sublates it in absolute knowledge; negativity there only to disappear and to keep the movement of sublation in play.
Precisely not the essential occurrence. Why not? Because being as beingness (actuality) on the basis of thinking (absolute knowledge). What matters is not—and indeed not first and only—that there "is" also a counter-part to every part and both belong together but, rather, that if indeed the "counter" as oscillation [das Gegen as Gegenschwung], then as event. Previously, there was always only sublation and gatheredness (λόγος), but now freeing and abyss and the full essential occurrence of original truth in time-space.
Now not νοεῖν, but the sheltering steadfastness. Strife as the essential occurrence of the "between," not as giving validity also to what is adverse.
The aphorism of Heraclitus on πόλεμος contains one of the greatest insights of Western philosophy, and yet it could not be developed for the question of truth, just as little as it could for the question of being (w. s. 1933-3410).
But whence the intimacy of the "not" in beyng? Whence such essential occurrence of beyng? Ever and again, questioning comes up against this issue, the one regarding the ground of the truth of beyng.
But truth itself the ground? And truth? It arises from holding oneself in the truth! Yet how is this an origin? To hold oneself in the truth: our burgeoning and our willing from our plight, because we are entrusted to ourselves and delivered up to ourselves—ourselves? Who are we ourselves?
9. Cf. Being and notbeing—the decision.
10. Lecture course, "Vom Wesen der Wahrheit," winter semester, 1933-34 (GA36-7).